Socialism != Communism. What you say is true for communism but not for socialism. #getyourfactstraight
Well... the bad news here is that a lot of this IP comes from actually employing foreigners, the final product is usually manufactured and assembled in China -and taxed in Ireland. Since, at the end, you're worrying about the wealth of the American citizen, the IP is only a small part in that chain (which the Chinese might even fail to apply properly). What's really hurting the US is the tax thing.
Even if you look beyond that, the stealing of IP (except any military stuff) is not what I would be primarily concerned about, but rather any security issue of any product manufactured in China. Big companies exercise certain control over production or reverse engineer their own products usually to check for low-level software or hardware level modifications, but that can't be afforded by smaller companies.
What? Tim is very proud to hire immigrants to diversify its workforce.
If it was a work phone issued by Apple, then I would say yes as they are the owner of the equipment.
As long as we continue to have U.S. companies that set up manufacturing plants in China, we will continue to see knock-offs brands sold here.
And that is Communism, everything for everyone and the state owns it all. I've got a client that used to work with factories in China, and it was a constant battle to keep their intellectual property safe. Finally, they've been able to buy their own factory, and even though they have more control, still, it's a daily fight.
No where in this document does it say 5,000 Apple employees are working on this project. All it says is they’re disclosed. And 2,700 have access to project specific databases. None of that means these people are working full time on the project.
According to this document Apple has over 135,000 employees. The idea that the Mac is being neglected in favor of any of those things is nonsense. I highly doubt the guy on stage with John Gruber at WWDC who owns AR at Apple has anything to do with getting new Intel processors in Macs.
I thought that was interesting as well but failed to mention it. You'd think they could employ some sort of ML that picks up on anomalous behaviors across data networks. Especially ones accessing secure projects. I get that they need people to manage these database systems, but they need some sort of dual-control or better access where an employee needs authentication from a higher up manager who then oversees these sensitive data transfers. I used to work in banking back in college and it worked well when transferring large sums of money between vaults. Still not perfect but more difficult to pull off than the "any system admin can access this" way that they have now. For all we know this had already been remedied and is part of the recent crackdown which has seen fewer leaks in the past year. I think Apple tends to want to be more trusting of their employees as they value privacy but they're beginning to realize the price they pay for such philosophy. Privacy in the workplace shouldn't be guaranteed when working on work machines involving multi-billion dollar projects.
